UF Connection in Brazil
2015
Brazil is a member of BRICS, a league of nations consisting of emerging economies including
Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Brazil currently has the sixth largest economy in the
world. The University of Florida engages with many universities and organizations in Brazil
through a variety of initiatives.
Visiting Students, Scholars, and Researchers:
For the academic year (2013-2014), UF hosted 175 international students and exchange visitors
from Brazil. Seven were undergraduate students, 60 were non-degree seeking students, 19
applied for Optional Practical Training (OPT), 89 were graduate students, and 203 were
exchange visitors.
Visiting Students, Scholars, and Researchers
Undergraduate Graduate Non-degree
OPT
Exchange Visitors
7
89
60
19
203
UF Students in Brazil
In the academic year (2013-2014), twenty University of Florida students studied abroad in
Brazil. The table below includes Exchange and UF-Sponsored Programs.
Study Abroad Programs and Reciprocal Agreements
Academic Unit at UF
Destination Institution or Program
Name
Focus of
program
Location
Agricultural and Life Sciences
ESALQ – Universidade de São Paulo
UF-Exchange
Piracicaba
University-wide
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
– LATAM
UF-Exchange
Rio de Janeiro
Law
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
– Law
UF-Exchange
Rio de Janeiro,
São Paulo
Liberal Arts and Sciences
UF in Bahia – Race, Inequality, and Power
UF-Sponsored
Salvador
Business Administration
UF in Brazil – MBA
UF-Sponsored
Business and Center for Latin
American Studies
Design, Construction and
Planning
Liberal Arts and Sciences
UF in Curitiba – Business in Brazil
UF-Sponsored
Rio de Janeiro,
São Paulo
Curitiba
UF in Curitiba – Urban Planning
UF-Sponsored
Curitiba, Paraná
UF in Rio – Language and Culture
UF-Sponsored
Rio de Janeiro
University-wide
UF in São Paulo – Challenge 2050
UF-Sponsored
São Paulo
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Study Abroad Programs and Reciprocal Agreements (cont.)
Destination Institution or Program
Focus of
Academic Unit at UF
Name
program
Location
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
UF-Exchange
Campinas
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – LATAM
UF-Exchange
Recife
Agricultural and Life Sciences
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – FIPSE
UF-Exchange
Santa Maria
Agricultural and Life Sciences
Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo – FIPSE
UF-Exchange
Vitoria
Agricultural and Life Sciences
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
UF-Exchange
Curitiba
In addition to UF-Exchange and UF-Sponsored study abroad programs, there are also Non-UF
Programs.
Internships
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Warrington College of Business’ Miller Center for
Retailing have partnered up to offer company placement in the UF in Curitiba exchange
program. Through this program, students work as consultants for a Brazilian firm, visit local
business, and receive academic credit.
Cooperative Agreements
Cooperative Agreements are collaborative efforts between UF and international institutions
with the intention to promote exchange of faculty and students between institutions, as well as
collaborations on academics and research. Below is a list of cooperative agreements between
UF and Brazilian institutions.
Academic Unit at UF
Institution Name
Focus
Academic Manager
Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica
Paula Souza – Centro Paula Souza
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa
Agropecuária – Department EMBRAPA
Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São
Paulo – Department of Engineering
Escola Judicial de América Latina –
Department of Law
Faculty and Student
Exchange
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Federal University of Rondonia –
Deparment of Nucleo de Tecnologia
Faculty, Student and
Research Exchange
Simone Athayde
simonea@ufl.edu
Center for Latin American
Studies
Fundacao de Amparo A Pesquisa do Estado
de São Paulo – Department of Research,
Science and Technological Development
Research
Emilio Bruna
florida-brazil@ufl.edu
Center for Latin American
Studies
Fundação Getúlio Vargas – Department of
LATAM
Exchange
Jeffrey Needell
jneedell@ufl.edu
Engineering
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Horticultural Science
Engineering
Law
Exchange, Joint Projects
Faculty, Student, and
Researchers Exchange
Research
Erik Sander
esander@eng.ufl.edu
Steven Sargent
sasa@ufl.edu
Erik Sander
esander@eng.ufl.edu
Jon Mills
mills@law.ufl.edu
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Cooperative Agreements (cont.)
Academic Unit at UF
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation
Center for Latin American
Studies
Center for Latin American
Studies
Center for Latin American
Studies
Center for Latin American
Studies
Center for Latin American
Studies
Medicine - Otolaryngology
Engineering
Institution Name
Fundação Pro-TAMAR – Deparment of
Zoology
Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Sistemas
Agroflorestais do Acre
Institute for Conservation and Sustainable
Development of Amazonas – Department
of Climate Change and Environmental
Services
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
Ministério Publico do Estado do Acre –
Department of Centro de Estúdios e
Aperfeiçoamento Institucional
The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support
and Evaluation of Graduate Education –
Department of International Relations
The Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias
Craniofaciais, Universidade de São Paulo,
Fundação para o Estudo e Tratamento das
Deformidades Craniofaciais – Department
of Fanoaudiologia.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas –
Rector’s Office
Focus
Academic Manager
Joint Research Projects
Karen A. Bjorndal
bjorndal@ufl.edu
Graduate Research
Marianne Schmink
schmink@tcd.ufl.edu
Faculty, Student, and
Researchers Exchange
Robert Buschbacher
rbusch@ufl.edu
UF Faculty Visitation
Marianne Schmink
schmink@latam.ufl.edu
Graduate level Training
and Research
Robert Buschbacher
rbusch@ufl.edu
Exchange
Emilio Bruna
embruna@ufl.edu
Faculty and Student
Exchange, Research
Rodrigo Silva
rodrigo.silva@ent.ufl.edu
Faculty,
Graduate/Undergraduate
Student, Research
Exchange
Faculty, Student and
Research Exchange
Eric Sander
esander@ufl.edu
Engineering - Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Horticultural Science
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation
Universidade Federal de Itajubá – Instituto
de Engenharia Mecânica (IEM)
Universidade Federal de Pelotas –
Coordenação de Relações Internacionais
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Soil and Water Science
Universidade Federal de Viçosa – CALS/Soil
& Water Science
Center for Latin American
Studies
Universidade Federal do Acre
Center for Latin American
Studies
Universidade Federal do Para
Faculty and Student
Exchange
Marianne Schmink
schmink@latam.ufl.edu
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Forest Resources and
Conservation
Universidade Federal do Paraná – Setor de
Ciências da Terra
Research
Kai Lorenzen
klorenzen@ufl.edu
Pharmacy
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte – Department of Pharmacy
Faculty, Student,
Technical-Administrative
Staff Exchange, Research,
Joint Projects
Hartmut Derendorf
hartmut@cop.ufl.edu;
keirnan@cop.ufl.edu
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Forest Resources and
Conservation
Universidade Federal dos Vales do
Jequitinhonha e Mucuri – Departamento
de Engenharia Florestal
Faculty, Student and
Research Exchange
Eric J. Jokela
ejokela@ufl.edu
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia – IFASWildlife & LATAM
Exchange
Faculty, Student and
Research Exchange
Faculty, Graduate Level
Student and Researchers
Exchange
Faculty, Graduate Level
Student Exchange
William Lear
lear@ufl.edu
Steven A. Sargent
sasa@ufl.edu
Emilio Bruna
embruna@ufl.edu
Nick Comerford
nbc@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Marianne Schmink
schmink@tcd.ufl.edu
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Cooperative Agreements (cont.)
Academic Unit at UF
Institution Name
Focus
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Animal Sciences
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Faculty and Student
Exchange, Joint Research
Projects
Joao Mauricio Bueno
Vendramini
jv@ufl.edu
Universidade Positivo – Deparment of
Architecture and Urbanism
Faculty and Student
Exchange
Joseli Macedo
joseli@ufl.edu
Design, Construction, and
Planning - Urban and Regional
Planning
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Entomology and
Nematology
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Horticultural Science
Universidade Regional de Blumenau –
Department of Agriculture
Universidade of Roraima – Post Graduation
in Agronomy
Academic Manager
Faculty and Student
Exchange, Research,
Joint Projects
Faculty and Graduate
Student Exchange in
Joint Projects
James Cuda
jcuda@ufl.edu
Bala Rathinasabapathi
brath@ufl.edu
Highlights
 TELETANDEM Workshops
Teletandem is a virtual context of foreign language teaching and learning that involves pairs of
native speakers of different languages working collaboratively in order to learn the language of
the other through Skype. By means of online computer mediated video-conferencing software,
each student plays the role of learner for one hour by speaking and practicing the language of
his/her partner. After an hour, they switch roles and languages. In conjunction with the
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), students at UF practice Portuguese through the use of
technology. (Pulled from the CLAS website.)
 Amazon Dams Program
This program is in the initial stages of development. The Amazon Dams Program builds on UF’s
Center for Latin American Studies and Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD)
thirty plus years of experience and excellence in research and collaboration in the Amazon
region. The Program will be initially developed in a partnership between University of Florida
and three Brazilian Universities: Federal University of Rondonia (UNIR), Federal University of
Tocantins (UFT) and State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT).
Research Projects
Below is a table of funded research projects with an international component involving Brazil.
Principal
Investigator
(PI)
Robert
Buschbacher
PI
department
Forest
Resource &
Conservation
Funded research projects
Co-Principal
Co-PI
Investigator
Project title
department
(Co-PI)
Amazon
Conservation
Leadership
Initiative
Funding
agency/
Sponsor
Moore,
Gordon &
Betty
Foundation
Project
funding
$840,746
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Principal
Investigator
(PI)
William O.
Dawson
PI
department
Funded research projects (cont.)
Co-Principal
Co-PI
Investigator
Project title
department
(Co-PI)
Funding
agency/
Sponsor
Project
funding
ALF – Citrus
Research and
Education
Center/
Institute of
Food &
Agricultural
Sciences
Pathology &
Laboratory
Medicine
Characterization
of CTV
Populations in
Brazil for
Production of
Infectious CDNA
Clones
Fundecitrus
$163,649
Long Term
Impact and
Intervention for
Diarrhea in Brazil
$14,580
Karen
Bjorndal
Biology
Michael
Heckenberger
Anthropology
Stephanie
Aleman
Anthropology
National
Science
Foundation
$109,770
Bette Loiselle
Center for
Latin
American
Studies
Simone
Athayde
Tropical
Conservation
and
Development
INTL Start
Secretariat
$15,000
Bette Loiselle
Center for
Latin
American
Studies
Robert
Buschbacher
Forest
Resource &
Conservation
Cynthia S
Simmons
Geography
Extensive
Hybridization
Among
Endangered Sea
Turtle
Populations in
Brazil: What is
the threat?
Participatory
Mapping and
Landscape
among an
Indigenous
Population
Developing an
International
Network on
Indigenous, risk
Interpretation
and Action
Training and
Networking to
Strengthen
Municipal
Environmental
Governance in
the Amazon
Collaborative
Research:
Contentious Land
Change in the
Eastern Amazon
University
of Virginia/
National
Institutes of
Health
PADI
Foundation
Patrick
Concannon
Porticus
Latin
America
National
Science
Foundation
$2,817
$215,425
$3,559
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Funded research projects (cont.)
Principal
Investigator
(PI)
PI
department
Daniela
Oliveira
Electrical &
Computer
Engineering
Robert T
Walker
Geography
Robert
Guralnick
Natural
History
Cynthia S
Simmons
Geography
Co-Principal
Investigator
(Co-PI)
Williams
Castro
Co-PI
department
Geography
Project title
A Workshop USBrazil on Cyber
Security and
Privacy
Impacts of
Mechanized
Agriculture on
Smallholders and
Landscapes in
the Central
Amazon Basin
Dimensions USBiota- Sao Paulo:
Assembly and
Evolution of the
Amazonian Biota
and its
Environment: An
Integrated
Approach
Collaborative
Research:
Contentious Land
Change in the
Eastern Amazon
Funding
agency/
Sponsor
Project
funding
National
Science
Foundation
$42,741
National
Science
Foundation
$11,498
National
Science
Foundation
$107,437
National
Science
Foundation
$3,559
Key Connections
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Rosana Resende, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist who received a Fulbright Postdoctoral
Scholar award in 2014 when she studied the impact of the shrinking availability of
domestic workers in Brazil on the middle class women who employed them.
Brazilian-Portuguese Club – This is a language club for students to enhance their
proficiency in Portuguese-speaking students and interact with international students.
Capoeira Academy of Gainesville – Capoeira is part dance, part martial art.
Adding information to this brief
If you have or are aware of a project, program, or other activity that UF has in this country that
has not been included in this brief, email ogre@ufic.ufl.edu.
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